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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Utz's New York dealer?
(a) Dr. Xerox.
(b) Dr. Franz.
(c) Dr. Davis.
(d) Dr. Franfurter.

2. What would Marta hide the hare or peasant under to get past the police?
(a) Rice.
(b) Books.
(c) Fish.
(d) Potatos.

3. What did Bottger develop in 1708?
(a) Bone china.
(b) Red porcelain.
(c) Gold chains.
(d) Blue porcelain.

4. What is Utz's bedside lampshade made from?
(a) Lace.
(b) Silk.
(c) Paper.
(d) Leather.

5. What did Marco Polo call cowrie beads?
(a) Pork ears.
(b) Porcelain buttons.
(c) Porcelain shells.
(d) Pigs' backs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous event is almost a year away?

2. What room does the narrator ask to see?

3. Who opened the first Porcelain factory in 1710?

4. How does Utz say the free world presented itself to him?

5. What does the blond woman throw out of the window?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the porcelain figure Dr. Franfurter sells Utz.

2. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

3. Why does Utz dislike Vichy?

4. Why is Augustus the Strong one of Utz's heros?

5. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?

6. How did the German's use Bottger's porcelain during the 1923 inflation?

7. How does Utz react when the narrator asks to see his bathroom?

8. Why does Marta bang pots together?

9. How did Bottger allow Augustus the strong to open the first commercial porcelain factory in 1710?

10. Why does Utz say he took up alchemical studies?

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